***Champions v Wolves Official Match Thread***

[nottsblue]

Great comeback on Thursday

Let's see if we rock up following the second half or if we revert to the first half

Wolves undoubtedly will park the bus so we need our wingers to be on it like the second half v Spuds creating the space

Fancy a tightish game but one we will win

2-0 Alfie

[Outcast]

Great comeback on Thursday

Let's see if we rock up following the second half or if we revert to the first half

Wolves undoubtedly will park the bus so we need our wingers to be on it like the second half v Spuds creating the space

Fancy a tightish game but one we will win

2-0 Alfie

I've noticed we seem to win you're less confident of a win. Never predict a confident win from now and on. You just don't know what's going to turn up with this team this season

[nottsblue]

Great comeback on Thursday

Let's see if we rock up following the second half or if we revert to the first half

Wolves undoubtedly will park the bus so we need our wingers to be on it like the second half v Spuds creating the space

Fancy a tightish game but one we will win

2-0 Alfie

I've noticed we seem to win you're less confident of a win. Never predict a confident win from now and on. You just don't know what's going to turn up with this team this season

My glass isn't even half empty! It's a quarter full and usually with piss
I'm very much a traditional City pessimist

[Original Dub]

Agree with much of the sentiment above and I certainly don't want to jinx it but I have a feeling we're going to turn on the style today.

Come on City - time for a title charge

[PeterParker]

Are we one up yet?

[blues2win]

Laporte comes in supposedly at LB. Not sure it’ll end up like that. Rodri De Bruyne and Gundogan in midfield. Mahrez Haaland and Grealish up front.

[CTID Hants]

XI | Ederson, Lewis, Stones, Akanji, Laporte, Rodrigo, De Bruyne, Gundogan (C), Mahrez, Grealish, Haaland

SUBS | Ortega Moreno, Walker, Dias, Phillips, Ake, Cancelo, Alvarez, Bernardo, Palmer

Hays Worldwide

[nottsblue]

No Foden at all?
Injured or naughty step do we know?

[blues2win]

Foden ‘not fully fit’.

[nottsblue]

XI | Ederson, Lewis, Stones, Akanji, Laporte, Rodrigo, De Bruyne, Gundogan (C), Mahrez, Grealish, Haaland

SUBS | Ortega Moreno, Walker, Dias, Phillips, Ake, Cancelo, Alvarez, Bernardo, Palmer

Hays Worldwide

Laporte LB?

Or are we going 3 at the back, Stones Akanji Laporte, with Rodders and Lewis sitting in front of them with Grealish and Mahrez giving width?

[blues2win]

Presumably Wolves will look to target our left flank with Adama Traoré whenever they have the opportunity which probably won’t be often. Guessing three at the back with Stones in the middle and Rico pushed up.

[carl_feedthegoat]

No Foden at all?
Injured or naughty step do we know?

Hes on the cunts step mate....I'm usually his biggest fan but his play recently has been one of doing 'sweet fuckall with the ball'.........he doesn't deserve to play.

[KinkyKinkladze]

Lewis Vs Adama traore. Talk about a baptism of fire. Get at him Rico lad.

[sheblue]

It would be nice, if we played a settled back 4, even if just for two games in a row.

[nottsblue]

No Foden at all?
Injured or naughty step do we know?

Hes on the cunts step mate....I'm usually his biggest fan but his play recently has been one of doing 'sweet fuckall with the ball'.........he doesn't deserve to play.

And to have Palmer ahead of him on the bench as well.

Foden must’ve really pissed Pep off in training lately. Maybe he is one of the players with poor body language that Pep has alluded to.

I’ve mentioned it before in one of the threads about Foden that I don’t think we’ve seen fully what he could do based on the potential he showed when he broke through. And this season he seems to be regressing further for whatever reason. Hope this is a wake up call for the lad and he starts to pull his tripe out again because he could be one of City’s all time greats

Of course he might just simply have picked up a knock in training

[john@staustell]

No Foden at all?
Injured or naughty step do we know?

Just ineffective I think

[john@staustell]

No Foden at all?
Injured or naughty step do we know?

Hes on the cunts step mate....I'm usually his biggest fan but his play recently has been one of doing 'sweet fuckall with the ball'.........he doesn't deserve to play.

And to have Palmer ahead of him on the bench as well.

Foden must’ve really pissed Pep off in training lately. Maybe he is one of the players with poor body language that Pep has alluded to.

I’ve mentioned it before in one of the threads about Foden that I don’t think we’ve seen fully what he could do based on the potential he showed when he broke through. And this season he seems to be regressing further for whatever reason. Hope this is a wake up call for the lad and he starts to pull his tripe out again because he could be one of City’s all time greats

Of course he might just simply have picked up a knock in training

I lost hope when he failed to beat Milner even once, and we kept Grealish on the bench

[john@staustell]

And just got in and realised we aren't on tv.

Pain in the arse

[Original Dub]

Get yourself a dodgy firestick ffs.

Then city will always be on the TV

[Original Dub]

As City look to further build on their midweek victory, they will do so without Phil Foden, who has been excluded from the Manchester City matchday squad that will challenge Julen Lopetegui’s Wolves this afternoon.

The official line from the club is that Phil Foden is ‘not fully fit’, and as such, will play no role in the Premier League clash against the struggling Midlands side. Foden’s last start for the club came in the 2-1 Manchester derby defeat at Old Trafford against Erik ten Hag’s United.